If you have a sharp analytical mindset and the drive to develop in a leading intelligence area, join us as an Investigation Specialist in our Financial Crime Intelligence and Investigations Unit (FCIIU). We're seeking someone who's fluent in either Mandarin or Farsi to join our ever-growing business area in this rare opportunity.

The global Financial Crime team brings together Anti Money Laundering,Sanctions, and Anti Bribery and Corruption professionals. We are responsible for defining the Financial Crime strategy for the bank, which includes setting policy which all our people must follow.

We have a vital role to play in protecting our customers and communities,providing Financial Crime advisory support across all our customer-facingbusinesses. We're also there to lend intelligence and investigations expertise to our businesses when they need it.

What You'll Do

The FCIIU is the bank's independent centre of expertise, gathering crucial intelligence linked to areas such as money laundering and terrorist financing.

Using your language skills, you'll be required to deliver strategic intelligence and Specialised Enhanced Due Diligence (SEDD) products and services which identify any potential risks and issues that would impact the bank. You'll be responsible producing a wide variety of intelligence material, using a range of existing and emerging sources to conduct in depth research, and working with other areas in Financial Crime, the wider bank, and external contacts. You'll then prepare a range of high quality reports for a variety of audiences, including senior managers and executives.

You'll also contribute to developing and maintaining a network of contacts – helping to ease product delivery – and will successfully manage internalstakeholder relationships.

Key Responsibilities

Serving as a subject matter expert on SEDD and intelligence products and services

Contributing to new forward thinking intelligence and SEDD products, challenging current practices leading to great insight and improvement

Providing high quality strategic intelligence and SEDD investigations and reports on existing or future threats

Liaising with police and other figures to optimise security, and looking a customer data and various interactions to assess their actions

What You'll Bring

You won't need existing experience in a financial crime or intelligence-gathering role to be successful, but you will need to be fluent in either Mandarin or Farsi, and have a proven ability to research and write focussed, informative reports. A university degree in a subject where essay or report writing were central would be ideal, and this role could be suitable for a recent graduate with an interest in financial crime.

You'll also need to be able to recognise and build sources and contacts, so some experience of networking and relationship management would be beneficial.

As a Financial Services organisation we comply with and support the requirements set by our Regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), whichare designed to protect our customers. This role falls under Conduct Rules of the Individual Accountability Regime (IAR) and is subject to pre-employment screening. This means if your application is successful, you’ll need to satisfy some important background checks before you can start working with us. These will include a full credit check, a criminal record check, residency and right to work checks.

How We'll Reward You

In return, we offer a competitive salary plus 25% cash and benefit funding programme that can be tailored to suit your individual needs. In addition, we provide a wide selection of exclusive lifestyle offers, development and learning programmes, services and support designed to help you manage and balance your work / life priorities. For more information on our benefits, please visit our website .

At RBS, we want everyone to feel welcome. That’s why we want you to know that we'll work with you to make the application process as smooth as possible. So please just let us know if you need any adjustments or support – we'll do whatever we can to help.

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